In a recent study of the sales prices of houses in a Midwestern city, the mean sales price has been reported to be $167,811 while the median sales price was $155,600. From this information, you can determine that the data involved in the study are left-skewed.

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When the mean is higher than the median, it suggests that the data are right-skewed, not left-skewed, because the higher values pull the mean to the right of the median.

In a Recent Study of the Sales Prices of Houses